Strengthening the climate action movement: Strategies from histories

Carbon Management

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 397-409

  Delina, Laurence L ^a   Diesendorf, Mark ^a   Merson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CONTROL;

CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; EMISSION REDUCTION; HISTORICAL ANALYSIS; LOCAL COMMUNITY; SOCIAL CHANGES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84949569519     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17583004.2015.1005396     Document Type: Article

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